As Covid surges in the US, Americans can’t get vaccinated: ‘terrified I might kill somebody’
As Covid surges in the US, Americans can’t get vaccinated: ‘terrified I might kill somebody’
Yo that's crazy.
Is this karma for US trying to withhold tuberculosis medication from Africa before? I still can't believe that there's people who unironically voted for and continue to defend this. Natural selection is gonna be brutal in the coming years.
Long COVID and the moral injury of passively harming others both suck shit. A well fitted respirator mask like an N95 can save a lot of hurt, and every broken chain of transmission is still valuable.
I’ve been getting flu shot every year for 10 years and all my yearly covid shots too. My internet speed is blazing fast.
I still don't see how getting 5G is seen as a bad thing. Of all the side effects they could come up with, they picked one that is genuinely useful? Come on... They can do better.
Viagra can cause blindness and no one lost dey minds over that.
Heads up: CVS doesn't give a fuck. Just tick the box saying you are at risk and then go get a same day appointment if you want. They don't ask any additional details so there is no risk of getting it in your file that you are obese or depressed or whatever else insurance companies will penalize you for (I think people were generally suggesting that you claim anxiety if you must since that is the least serious and most transient?).
I've also been seeing rumor that there may be an additional meeting to lock that down in a few weeks, but I haven't managed to find details beyond "everybody is talking about it". So... good luck.
I did get mine at CVS but my insurance wouldn't bill through them so it cost me $200. It was either that or not get the shot at all so I ponied up.
For anyone else facing this issue that can’t afford it, apparently part of the new FDA guidelines are that people need to get it at a doctor’s office rather than a pharmacy (so our insurance advised us). So if your copay is cheaper it’s probably worth making an appointment for.
If you can’t afford the copay try local (or less local) libraries, ours does limited free vaccines occasionally.
United? A year or two back when I still had UHC they actively refused to work with CVS and I had to go to Walgreens instead. No idea if Walgreens cares or not about guidelines
Can confirm. Just got vaccinated at CVS two days ago. Not having worms in your brain definitely qualifies you to get a vaccine.
This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
Interesting choice to single out non voters over the Republicans that literally voted for this.
No matter what your downvotes say or the ridicule you face, what you are saying is correct.
If the general consensus had a functioning rational mind, our world wouldn't be boiling, corporations would be under control, and we'd all be living significantly happier lives.
Unfortunately, that isn't reality.
By extension, in general, the majority population isn't capable of reasoning through these things. So you will have an unpopular opinion until that changes, hopefully before the irreversible death of humanity on this planet.
Republicans are lost causes. Principled non-voters had some capacity for rational thought left, at least in theory, and thus should've been open to seeing reason.
GOP voters, by and large, have no delusion of what they voted for. Protest-non-voters need to be informed of what they actually voted for.
It’s the same fucking thing in our system. FFS.
yeah..fuck those guys. Lie in your bed, pull up a pox blanket.
Hope they all get covid.
If necessary, you can travel from your slave state to a free state and get it.
fuck that all states are slave states controlled by the same owner class
just because you won the demographic lottery and live in an HOA bubble doesn't mean the rest of us do or could just hop in car for a day trip
fyi some people have the job to go other states for other people for this reason whole economy of it and that alone shows we need to riot for major reform
Article provides no source for '...covid surges...' ('Im not saying its false, I'm saying where the hell do we get this info now that the CDC is unreliable)
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Thank you.
My boyfriend and I are literally stuck at home right now with covid. We're also aware of quite a few cases popping up around us. At this point, the only way we'll know of surges are due to word of mouth.
That sucks, hope ya feel better soon and stay well. If you want info on tracking surges, or want to read about treatment and such, I just posted a reply to this same parent comment with some links that might help.
E: This “What to Do When I Have Covid” guide from Clean Air Club might be useful too.
Please don't wait for your vax. I told my wife we needed to renew last week, we waited a couple days too long, and Covid hit every single one of our family members and us last week. It still hits pretty hard.
I was literally going to look into getting my vaccine this week... Then I got Covid. So sitting at home feeling miserable. Only positive thing is while its been awful, it hasn't been as awful as the other time I got it and almost ended up hospitalized.
God keeps sending plagues. I wonder why.
It bothers me when christians are like "god sent a plague because you're gay" but not "oh wow there was a global pandemic after we elected one of the worst humans on earth"
When i do it it’s gods blessing, when they do it it’s witchcraft
When they do wrong it’s god sending the plagues, when I do wrong and get a plague it’s a test of faith
When other believers get hurt, it’s ours gods wrath, when we get hurt… it’s in bible, the whole history of Job
Sorry, I turned the frogs gay.
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Disease isn't judgement. I know you're just being flippant, but it's a line of thinking that grinds on me after having lived through the tail end of the AIDS epidemic.
And most of the deaths are during Trump's terms. Odd. Almost as if his complete lack of responsible leadership has something to do with it.
It does but he doesn’t give a fuck
God doesn't exist. Our terrors are of man, buddy.
There was literal plague in California.
https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-08-25/the-plague-reappeared-in-california
Is it surging? The article didn't say anything about a surge in cases
maybe just a swell.